John Henry Values

In John Henry it tells a story about a young black boy who wants to be the best steel-driving man there ever was. He also doesn't want to do anything else, but steel-driving. He told his mamma that when he becomes a steel-driving man that that is where he is going to die, on the C & O Road. When you think about this the song already starts off with some values because John Henry is completely dedicated to being a steel-driving man. Also another point that helps support this is when he talks about how he will hammer himself to death. This helps show how he will do anything and everything to be the best at steel-driving. Also you cant tell that John Henry's values are a lot different from the white mans in this song because when they get started to do the duel between each other the white man just says he will grab his steel machine while John Henry talks about his trusty hammer and how he will work harder and better than the machine. This shows the values John Henry had over the white man because he was willing to put everything he had on the line and put every ounce of effort towards beating that machine. One last thing that you can see in the values that John Henry had was after the the steel-driving battle he dies because of all the effort that he has put into it. He works so hard for what he believed in that he just completely shut down and died. But before he died he asked for a glass of water and a women in a red dress gave it to him. This all shows how big his values were in life and how he would do anything for them no matter what it took.